Topic: Anybody left your day job for bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 3343 times)

This is called job satisfaction. Bitcoin has offered it to thousands of developers across the globe as a side benefit

I left my job as a project leader at an IT consultancy in Spain nine months ago. Didn't like the job much. Lots of bosses, few developers. Not healthy.

I am currently working on my own developing Bitcoin based solutions. I am learning a lot and I do feel I am doing useful stuff for the community. I have never been happier and more fulfilled.

Awesome bro, wish you all the best .

May surprise you guys or not but I've only ever been unemployed, sure it would be nice if I could get a part time job but right now I'm fully devoted to building up my two businesses, since I think I will have a much better chance than searching around for a job forever only to be paid minimum wage.

If things go to hell it may be worth getting a part time job since I can drive now but so far it's all gone a lot better than I expected.

Thats pretty sad. Man, how could he have not gotten any BTC?

Not me, unfortunately. I didn't buy my first fraction of a bitcoin until earlier this year.

You registered in May 2011. That was only about a month after Bitcoin reached $1. You should be rich now.

Within a year I fully expect to drop my day job for Cyrptos .

I just added Bitcoin to my days of work, school and life because as far as i know money is not everything in life. Some people i had met that

gave up their lifes for money, fell down to deep bitterness.

man, bleeding BTC, that sucks! 

I do hope you find work soon.  even though I disagree
with your politics, I find your contributions valuable.

unfortunately I'm not "rich"... but don't give up hope,
keep hustling, you'll find something.

Hopefully one day soon!

My "day job" is part-time and I spend a lot of it trying to pick up Bitcoin anyhow because of how much free time I have. That's when I'm not writing on a science fiction story that I intend to sell to a magazine. 

Sounds awesome. I especially like the part of doing part-time work. There are so many unemployed people, and so many people toiling long hours, we should try to distribute it more evenly.

Although there's nothing inherently wrong with unemployment either. It tells us that the engine we call society is now more fuel-efficient.

I left a job in the Law/Software field to join a bitcoin company. I love it here and we are all paid 100% in bitcoin.

When I resigned from the other job, they wanted me so bad that they counter offered but I declined.

They gave me one more counter-offer and that was the option to work 1-20 hours per week from home. I accepted.

I now work 2 jobs. 100% full time at my bitcoin job and part time from home for the Law job.

Best decision ever.

Kind of.

A year and a half ago, I quit my day job which had made my life miserable. I had enough savings to live on for a year or two, plus a nice stash of Bitcoins, but nothing to retire on. I just wanted to focus on the fun things, which for me were studying more math and doing art, like music and theatre.

Going back to school was essential for me for a couple of reasons, besides enjoying the subject. I wanted some kind of daily (or at least weekly) schedule to stay productive, and I also had professional reasons to improve my qualifications. When people ask me what I do, I can tell them I'm a student, and I have a good reason for being one in my age.

In fact, for many years, I have been questioning the way people expect you to have a well-defined job that defines what you are, vs. leisure time for doing something essentially useless. I am considering my current situation as a social experiment, and I understand that people need places and times to go and do things, in order to stay sane and productive. I have basically turned this upside down, by doing art projects with other people, occasionally involving long hours and "business trips", and then do some trading and coding in my free time.

I was really just thinking of a gap year or two, but given the way Bitcoin has developed over the time, I'm not sure if I ever go back to work -- though running a small business might be a nice option to organize all the fun.

are you talking about day trading, or just the gains from the BTC you are already holding?

My last day was 2013-04-04.

Two week notice was given prior.

Never looked back although the job was an awesome work place.

 

I left mine.  It's probably more like a sabbatical than anything. 

YYYY-MM-DD is customary in USA. It presumes to answer the thread title question.

is it YYYY-MM-DD OR YYYY-DD-MM

What happened on that day? you resigned?